You sunk my battleship

[GunnyUSMC]

I pick up my grandson, JohnLee, today and went over the my Ex’s house to shoot with Gunner.
First we had a little safety class then went over sight alinement and sight picture. We did some shooting with some single shot 22’s.
Then I took out the Marlin XT 22VR. One said, now that’s a sniper rifle.
I asked is they knew how to play battleship and they said yes. I then pulled out the battleship target and said let’s play it with the rifle.
They decided that they would take turns shooting three rounds each.
It was a close one but JohnLee won the game. Here they are in combat mode.
Gunner


JohnLee


After the battle was over, JohnLee won.


It was a close fight with few misses.


After the battle we set out some fun reactive targets and had some fun.

 

[Demi-human]

Well done, Papa Bear! Aways nice to see the little bears out and having fun!

 

[doubleh]

Those are a couple of good looking boys and you're a good guy for taking them shooting.

 

[Valkman]

That's good shooting! Nice to see them learning in a good way.

 

[ontarget]

Future Leathernecks I presume. Watch out Carlos Hathcock, looks like some potential there.

 

[Wisco]

#1 way to hook new shooters is make it as fun as you can within safety constraints - good work!

 

[Mn Fats]

How's that played though? Shouldn't it be the targets with dots are covered with an identical target that has no dots then the other player would have to guess which square to shoot? Like the board game. Idk.

Anyways, good job Gunny!

 

[Old Dog]

The boys will remember these times for the rest of their lives.

Nothing better than bringing up new shooters.

Good on ya.

 

[GunnyUSMC]

How's that played though? Shouldn't it be the targets with dots are covered with an identical target that has no dots then the other player would have to guess which square to shoot? Like the board game. Idk.

Anyways, good job Gunny!

It would be pretty hard to play if your targets were hidden like in the original game. With the target it relies on the shooters skill to be able to hit the dots.
And then it’s up to the players to decide how they will shoot. The boys decided on taking turns shooting three rounds each. You could do it for speed if you wanted, but there are many different ways if you use your imagination.

 

[Bwana John]

How's that played though? Shouldn't it be the targets with dots are covered with an identical target that has no dots then the other player would have to guess which square to shoot? Like the board game. Idk.

Anyways, good job Gunny!

Never too young to introduce the Cartesian coordinate system!

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

It would be pretty hard to play if your targets were hidden like in the original game. With the target it relies on the shooters skill to be able to hit the dots.
And then it’s up to the players to decide how they will shoot. The boys decided on taking turns shooting three rounds each. You could do it for speed if you wanted, but there are many different ways if you use your imagination.

That's sum fine shooting!

I used to build 3-D ship targets out of heavy gauge construction paper and had a blast blowing them to smithereens. You could target specific spots like gun turrets, magazines, or the engineering spaces for an extra challenge. The Bismark, Yamato, and Graf Spee all felt my wrath!

Plastic model kits are a hoot too, though they tend to spin around and throw shrapnel everywhere, lol.

 

[bannockburn]

Gunny

Looks like a great way for the boys to learn marksmanship skills while having a bunch of fun and friendly competition doing it! I let my kids shoot at water bottles, aluminum cans, filled pop cans, various fruits and vegetables, and of course Green Army Men!

 

[Mn Fats]

It would be pretty hard to play if your targets were hidden like in the original game

If you placed a target with squares over the squared targets that had dots, it'd cover the dotted ones and still allow the shooter to shoot separate squares without knowing which one had a dot under it. Like the game.

I'm way over thinking this. Nice to see new shooters enjoying the sport. And an old shooter passing it on.

 

[Good Ol' Boy]

I have those targets and they are pretty fun.

The wife and I play from the back porch taking one shot back and forth. Makes for some good afternoon fun.

Congrats on getting some more youngins shooting Gunny.

 

[DannyLandrum]

Now that's some good grand-pappy-ing.

 

[WheelGunMan]

What a great way to make the shooting sports Dan's for life! Well played Grandpa!!

 

[OARNGESI]

Awesome, those targets are pretty cool too where did you buy them

 

[GunnyUSMC]

Awesome, those targets are pretty cool too where did you buy them

I ordered them from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/EZ2C-Targets...1540202155&sr=1-3&keywords=battleship+targets

 

[sota]

I hate you. now I have to spend money on targets. Those are SO COOL!

 

[Erief0g]

I take the tic tack toe, battleship, and the target that is the handgun training target from ez2c direct.

Every time at my local charlotte nc indoor range that I see a father son team doing some shooting I pull two targets of each one and gift it to them. I also give them the idea of the better shooter using a5-10 foot handicap.

I don't have kids but the memories of being taught to shoot are incredibly fond. Wish i had all those super cheap bricks of 22lr now.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

I ordered them from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/EZ2C-Targets...1540202155&sr=1-3&keywords=battleship+targets

You inspired me to make up some of these for my range trip today, Gunny. Its the Axis and Allies edition- each target depicts an actual engagement between opponents in WW2. Each shooter picks a side and gets 5 shots to cause as much damage as possible, lol.

Bonus points to anyone who ID's all four pairs of ships.....

 

[boom boom]

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You inspired me to make up some of these for my range trip today, Gunny. Its the Axis and Allies edition- each target depicts an actual engagement between opponents in WW2. Each shooter picks a side and gets 5 shots to cause as much damage as possible, lol.

Bonus points to anyone who ID's all four pairs of ships.....

No ship can resist your supersonic torpedoes.

 

[mpd61]

Hood-Bismarck
Washington-Kirishima
Exeter-Graf Spee
Yamato-Unamed CVE

 

[Sergei Mosin]

The escort carrier is GAMBIER BAY (CVE-73). I like that idea, use .22s for shells, .45s for torpedoes.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Hood-Bismarck
Washington-Kirishima
Exeter-Graf Spee
Yamato-Unamed CVE

Nicely done!

The carrier was meant to be Gambier Bay, as she was the only one sunk by Japanese gunfire, but it could just as well have been one of the others in TF 3.